Marker for combined planters and cultivators



March 9, 1937.

E. w. OWENS CULTIVATQRS MARKER FOR COMBINED PLANTERS AND Filed Oct. 26, 1935 Patented Mar. 9 1937 UNITEo STATES MARKER FOR COMBINED PLAN'IERS AND CULTIVATORS Edward W. Owens, Sioux City, Iowa Application October 26, 1935, Serial No. 46,953

3 Claims.

This invention includes a frame carried by wheels with planter and cultivator machinery attachable thereto and detachable therefrom; so that the same machine may be used both to 5 plant and cultivate, and consists in the construction of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

An object is to have the gauge marker so constructed as to make three marks, the middle mark to serve as a guide for the operator and the two outside marks for the horses to follow, for to guide them accurately; the two outside marks to be wide enough so that they will serve as paths for the horses.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in its construction, combination, and novel arrangement of parts which will be fully understood from the following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view in top plan of a combined planter and cultivator having applied thereto a marker gauge constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view in rear elevation of the marker beam and elements directly associated therewith.

My gage marker system is described as follows: The marker gage bar 42 is pivotally fastened to the drivers seat 22 at one end and to the center of the marker beam 43 at the other end by a hinge 44 which allows the marker beam to oscillate freely and three marker runners are fixed to the marker beam 43 one runner 45 at each end of the beam 43 and one runner 46 to the center of the marker beam 43 and the outside section of the marker beam is hingedto the inside section of the marker beam 43 at the right hand side of the middle runner 46 by a hinge 46a so that the outside section of the marker beam 43 can move freely up and down, that all the runners may conform to the surface of the field.

Extending upwardly from the inside runner 45 is a member 41 in the form of an inverted U. The marker gauge bar 42 is placed in the U- shaped member 41 for the purpose of keeping the marker gauge bar 42 in proper position as the bar 42 freely oscillates up and down in the member 41. This is important as the bar 42 should be maintained in direct line with the marker beam 43.

A brace rope or chain 48 is fixed by one end to the center of the outside section of the marker beam 43 and by its other end to the guide rope 49 as shown in Fig. 4 fastened by a ring 50 to the forward portion of the adjacent side or end of the frame F of the machine.

As is clearly illustrated in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, the end marker runners are of a width in excess of the central runner 46. The wide outside or end markers are provided to guide the draft animals while the central marker is to guide the driver. By having the beam 43 sectional it is made possible for the gauge to readily pass over uneven ground and, of course, when desired the outer end shoe 45 can be drawn up into an inoperative position.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with a corn planter and cultivator comprising a main frame, a gauge marker including an elongated marker gauge bar operatively carried by the frame for swinging movement in a vertical direction, a marker beam disposed in the same general direction as the bar, the outer end portion of the bar being in pivotal connection with the central portion of the beam, wide marker runners carried by the end portions of the beam, a central marker runner carried by the beam, a flexible bracing member operatively engaged with the outer portion of the marker beam and with the frame.

2. In combination with a corn planter and cultivator comprising a main frame, a gauge marker including an elongated marker gauge bar operatively carried by the frame for swinging movement in a vertical direction, a marker beam disposed in the same general direction as the bar, the outer end portion of the bar being in pivotal connection with the central portion of the beam, Wide marker runners carried by the end portions of the beam, a central marker runner carried by the beam, a flexible bracing member operatively engaged with the outer portion of the marker beam and with the frame, said marker beam comprising two pivotally connected sections, the inner section carrying two of the shoes, the brace member being engaged with both sections, the pivotal connection between the sections of the beam permitting said sections to have swinging movement in a vertical direction one with respect to the other.

3. In combination with a corn planter and cultivator comprising a main frame, a gauge marker including an elongated marker gauge bar operatively carried by the frame for swinging movement in a vertical direction, a marker beam disposed in the same general direction as the bar, the outer end portion of the bar being in pivotal connection with the central portion of the beam, wide marker runners carried by the end portions of the beam, a central marker runner carried by the beam, a flexible bracing member operatively engaged with the outer portion of the marker beam and with the frame, an upstanding me'inber carried by the inner end portion of the beam, said member being in the form of an inverted U, the bar passing freely through said member, said member and bar coacting to maintain the bar and beam in proper relative position.

EDWARD w. OWENS. 

